CRIME

The data on ascertained and cleared-up crimes do not include crimes registered by the Alien and Border Police of the CR. In one year, the number of cleared-up crimes can be higher than the number of committed crimes because that what is decisive is the year when the crime was cleared up and not the year when it was committed.

Prosecuted person – a person against whom prosecution was initiated according to Section 160 (1) of the Criminal Procedure Act or against whom summary pre-trial proceeding is conducted according to Section 179 a) and following of the Criminal Procedure Act. Investigated person – a person who is or was examined according to Section 158 of the Criminal Procedure Act for reasonable suspicion of committing a crime, but against whom neither prosecution was initiated nor suspicion of committing a crime was notified to him. Habitual offenders are offenders who committed a crime and have already been sentenced for it or for another crime (see Section 34 of the Criminal Code). Juveniles are persons who completed the age of 15 and did not reach the age of 18 at the time they committed a crime.

Other offences include offences of violence, offences against morality and against property, frauds and other criminal acts.

TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS

Traffic accident is an event occurring on a road (a car crash etc.) and resulting in death or injury, or causing property damage, which is directly related to the operation of a vehicle. All accidents of which the Police is notified are computer recorded and stored.

Excluded for this purpose are events in which a vehicle is damaged, or a person killed or injured, without any connection to a collision with another vehicle, pedestrian, animal or fixed obstacle (e.g. damage during repairs, unloading or loading of a vehicle).

For the purpose of computer records, a killed person is a person who died on the spot, during transport to hospital, or within 24 hours after the accident. The record is updated if a person involved in an accident dies in the period from 24 hours to 30 days after the accident occurs.

Severe injury is a serious disorder or illness, as classified usually by a physician. Light injury is any injury except a severe one. For the purpose of computer records, light injury is injury to physical or mental functions even if the person concerned is not incapacitated for work.

FIRES

Data on fires and main reasons for the action of fire and rescue service units were compiled from information prepared by the Czech Fire and Rescue Service.